Hi all, I’m sorry to hear about the end of development for Sonar. As a long time fellow Boston/Cambridge based software developer, we at MOTU certainly appreciate the effort and challenges that go into maintaining a successful DAW. We understand how important these products can be to our users for both their livelihood and creative pursuits. For those who are currently in search of a new DAW, I wanted to make sure that you’re all aware that MOTU offers a cross-grade from any other DAW software to Digital Performer 9.51, and in fact we recently announced that we're offering a 50% discount on all crossgrade purchases to $195 (regularly $395). This offer will be good through December 21 2017. You can check out the latest list of features DP has to offer here: http://motu.com/products/software/dpLastly I wanted to share a way to contact me directly if you have any questions about any aspect of DP, I can be reached at: dpcrossgrade@motu.comYou can also call us directly at: 617.576.2760

Joking aside, some firms were exceptionally quick off the mark to offer crossgrades after the announcement. Took a few hours at the most for the first mailout to arrive, I may have even heard about the whole Sonar demise thing via a crossgrade offer from one of the other firms now I think about it...

Pete Kaine wrote:*other crossgrade deals may be available in your region

Joking aside, some firms were exceptionally quick off the mark to offer crossgrades after the announcement. Took a few hours at the most for the first mailout to arrive, I may have even heard about the whole Sonar demise thing via a crossgrade offer from one of the other firms now I think about it...

Because I doubt I will be able to carry on with Sonar, my main DAW, after my present PC packs up, I'm moving to another DAW now. I've been using Mixcraft 8 for three weeks now andam by and large very happy. The learning curve has been slight coming from a Cakewalk / CoolEdit / Acid / Sonar / Acid Pro / Studio One / Sonar Platinum background; the feature list is surprisingly mature; and it is more stable / less flakey on my pretty robust Scan PC than those DAWs ever were, beyond a certain track / VSTi / FX plug count. In terms of intuitive use, probably closest to Studio One.